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As advertised, you can roll your own.

> "Everything is ease-of-use optimized, to the point that you can query Mongo via the browser console." meteor remove autopublish meteor remove insecure The Mongo-accessible fronte…

This makes sense. But would you say that there could be easier shorthand descriptors to supplement the terms? Or perhaps terms that are used to describe the utility of currying, bu…

Good thoughts. I'm interested to see if there are other opinions.

I agree, I've revisited my position. Argument deferral and partial application (my term: argument presetting) is something that currying can achieve, but it's not what currying is.…

Good point. It's a bit of a wonder why so many people think of them as equivalent (perhaps they thought currying was a convenient shorthand for partial application). I'm comfortabl…

Your path will be your own, but here's what has helped me: Try Meteor (meteor.com). That way you start from a complete development environment, and you can focus on actually using …

Again, your description refers to "partial application", which is different from currying. I think that many people are comfortable with "currying" only because they think it's the…

From the perspective of a non-functional language, it is argument deferral because you're composing your sequence of functions first, which can then be used by later adding inputs …

Thanks for this clarification. The fact that these are widely confounded is evidence that many people are comfortable with the term "currying" only because they think it's the same…

Your description refers to "partial application", which is different from currying. I think that many people are comfortable with "currying" only because they think it's the same a…

As a related extension, though I don't think "partial application" is a bad term, I can also think of it as "presetting arguments", so there you go, my last submission is to call t…

See my longer comment. I'm suggesting "sequencing" and the opposite, "bundling".

Thanks everyone for the comments. It is interesting to see how widely "currying" is conflated with "partial application". I have to say, I still find the name to be a stumbling blo…

I recently learned what the heck "currying" means. I'm sure I'm not the only one who struggled to grasp what this term means, since its name does not come from an intuitive notion …

I read it about a month ago, but these are thoughts that have been ruminating in my head for the past few weeks. I have struggled to explain the benefits of Meteor to others, they …

You can weigh the trade-off between needing to configure your environment with what Meteor gives you. I would say Meteor has a value proposition that's definitely worth looking at.…

I don't understand this comparison. Meteor makes things simpler and removes a lot of low-level complexity. It makes software development simpler. By "some people want Windows", it …

Been using Meteor for 4 months, and I'm an junior ops guy turned developer. So if I say something that sounds like I don't know what I'm talking about, it's probably because I don'…